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president, Miss Nettie Boles secretary, Rev.
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gregate in the evening and listen to
the music or watch the glories of the
changing colored lights with which the
fountains are illuminated. The life in
these great caravanseries is complete in it.
self. Very many persons who go to Sara
toga see little else that is enjoyable in the
houses where they are lodged. Two thou
sand guests form lively company, and with
half mile of hotel corridors and piazzas to
walk upon, with bar and billiard and bowl
ing-rooms, with parlors for dancing and So
ciabie converse, with the music and gardens
and the constant tide of visitors from the
other hotels, to say nothing of the club
house at each hotel, where card-playing is
INDUCED in, there is little left to be asked for
by those who come primarily to rest and take
their ease
One end of one wing of each of these great
hotels is what is called the cottage portion
Here, instead of tiers of bedrooms, are suites
of rooms arranged so that each suite shall in
clude parlor, dining-room, bathroom and
bedrooms. Mr.. Vanderbilt always rented
one of the larger ground floor suites, with six
rooms, and paid s27 so day for the scot
tage," and 81 SO day additional for each
member of his household, whether they
were servants or members of his family.
The Vanderbilt heirs and their connections,
the Twomleys, Sloanes and Webbs, Senator
Warner Miller, President Chauncey NJ. De-
pew, of the New York Central, and host of
notables live in this way while at the springs.
They rent the cottages furnished as rule,
but often add appointments brought from
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their homes. Their meals are served in the
cottages from the hotel kitchens.

their homes. Their meals are served in the
cottages from the hotel kitchens.
Saratoga is masculine resort. To be sure
there are thousands of ladies there in the
season, and the place is famous for the dis
plays of millinery and of gowns that illu-
inmate the piazzas, parks and drives. Never
theless, the main features of the place-the
great gambling clubs, the race-track infiu-
ence the drinking and dining resorts-all
mark the place as distinctively masculine. 1t
is also distinctively New Workers resort.
In the crowds on the main street, at the race
track or in the dining-rooms a metropolitan
man feels at home, because he is surrounded
by familiar faces and by acquaintance and
friends. The village is indeed beautiful
one and is surrounded by country of ex-
quisite fertility and scenic charms. The
foothills of the Adirondacks are visible
IN the one hand and the peaks OF
the Green and White mountains rise on
the other, but very family and far away.
Springs of medicinal water, impregnated
with half hundred different chemicals
burst through the earth's crust every here
and there within the village, and at intervals
along the roads leading out of it. 1t is the
custom in the morning for the guests at the
hotels to visit the principal springs before
breakfast, some favoring one water and
some another. Some of these wells are in
closed within buildings, and one is in very
beautiful and deliberately cultivated open-air
park. In either case the visitor pays an
admission fee of five cents and drinks as
freely as he cares to, the spring water being
served by attendants. The less he drinks
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rounded by broad, low piazza, on which
the people rest and revel in the beautiful
scenery. The Chips are still served there
and it is the fashion to eat them, though you
can get as good ones anywhere in the
country,
AT night, the main street of Saratoga huns
like the chief artery of a great city. 1t con-
tains many stores that greatly interest and
busy the ladies as well as drinking places
for the men. The clubhouse and the lesser
gambling dens are on side streets. John
Morrissey, the pugilist and congressman,
made his fortune and notoriety here as the
proprietor of the Saratoga Club, and it re-
mains as he left it, substantial and pala-
TALLY appointed clubhouse with a grand
saloon for the patrons of the green cloth, a
very nice restaurant and bar-room for gen
tlemen and the private apartments of the
bankers and employees overhead. This
club-houseis not alone gambling place. 1t
is favorite meeting and lounging place for
horsemen and politicians. Residents of the
village and neighborhood are excluded
from it.
Fashionable as Saratoga has ever been, its
pleasures are within the reach of all who can
afford to go anywhere for rest and recreation.
In the hotels and clearinghouse all purses
are suited. The pageantry of the afternoon
driving and the glitter and gayety of the
great hotels are free to all who choose to look
on, and the poor can see as much of them as
the wealthy. The region abounds in pretty
walks and show places. Judge Hilton, the
chief heir of Alexander I. Stewart has laid
out beautiful park close to the village, and
it is, in time, to be filled with summer resi-
dences. Mount McGregor, where the great
captain of the republic, General Grant, passed
from earth to Immortality, is but short dis
lance by cars from the heart of the Springs,
and from its lights one may see the Adiron-
dacks, the Hudson, in its perennial baby hood,
and region famed in the annals of the Rev
olution, of poetry and Of song.
JULIAN RALPH
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,ent, or, at the most, three-cent vaca,

Ceht, VI, az thO hhose, ehiO0-OonS FaO@
lions.
But there are those who are too poor
even for this apparently inexpensive re-
course. They are too far from the fer
ries, or haven't the pennies to spare.
They are the ones who transform the
wharves into watering places all through
the midsummer in the evenings-and |
assure you the wharves are not such bad
places to put in an evening away from
the baking walls of town, especially if
you go to them as these folks do with
crowds of people you know, to while
away the hours in the cool river draught.
Others besides the invalids HE there
lads with concertinas and girls to hear
them play, and to sing the words to the
popular airs they evoke so skillfully.
Of course, it goes without saying that
other lads go there to meet the girls,
so that the consequence is that there
is sure to be an impromptu ball, and
of the merriest kind, on at least three out
of every five uptown piers on every sum-
mer evening. Painters need not go to
Europe to study picturesque work-a-day
life as they do, for among the plenty of
material always at home there is nothing
more pretty, poetical or picturesque than
the scenes on one of these city wharves
with the girls and boys dancing under
the ships bowsprits and among the bales
of merchandise, their ribbons flying and
their faces glowing with fun and health,
while along the string piece, on either side
of the dancers, sit the invalids, the tired
workmen and wives, and the lines of boys
and girls singing the ballads of the streets.
The belated or the early-rising. citizen
sees every bench in the parks occupied
by recumbent sleepers on these hot nights,
and most persons suppose that all such
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When DER the daisy-dotted mead
The arrows fly with whlzzing speed,
Which dainty hands deliver,
A target is the yielding heart,
To stop that most unerring dart,
Concealed in beauty's culver.
What arrows speed or deadly lance
Smite as the SIRENS level glance,
In Turing, lightning vision;
1t sets each trembling nerve athrill,
And leads the yielding, wounded will
To servitude elysian.
The keenest shaft of polished wit,
In rare occasions bow may fit
To make the smitten rue it;
But in the light of beauty's eye
Is such delightful archery
We bare our bosom to it.
Till one concludes from what he sees,
We like the strange anomalies
That emanate from Cupid;
For love exists at wits expense,
And lovers are in every sense
Exceptionally stupid.
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loungers are tramps, but they are not The
thoroughbred tramp is too particular and
luxurious to stay in town in hot weather
The police insist that all Migrants shall
sleep in the station-houses, and as these
are not to be compared for comfort to a
cool country barn or cooler farm wagon,
the tramps all take to the country as
soon as warm weather sets in. There may
be few sprinkled among the sleepers on
the park benches, but the police tell me
that the great majority of these al fresco
dodgers are young, and even old men,
who have homes in the tenements, but
prefer to camp out on the hard benches
rather than stay indoors and battle
against suffocation instead of sleeping
With the men on the roofs, or in the
parks, or asleep on the sidewalks, the
women have the tenement beds to them
selves and are better able to endure the
intense heat.
There are other odd street scenes that
are peculiar to the metropolis. The inju-
rious tank of free ice water that mis-
guided charity establishes every year In
front of the post office may not be one
of these, though it is to be hoped it is
and possibly every considerable city has
its penny frozen corn-starch men and
llohy -pohy NcuucIS, WIN ulSScIlludlc
what they are pleased to call ice cream
either soft in little egg cups or solid in
tiny bricks; but certainly the numerous
and yet always overcrowded "free baths"
are peculiar characteristics of the dog
days in Gotham. These free baths are
very like magnitied eel-pots, and though
the water flows freely through them and
must be constantly changing, even more
rapidly, if possibly, than the relays of
bathers, yet the river-water is at best of
the complexion of restaurant soup; and
the large crowds of perspiring humanity
of both sexes that are always seen
either in long lines or packed like
sheep on the wharves are enough, if
anything is. enough, to make "a
Clearly person go unwashed rather than
endure the consequences of mingling
with such crowd in such a place, even
when one is confident that ones fancy is
more to blame than fact. Really, the
baths that are not free, to which the best
folks in town go to cool off, are very
little different. To be sure, one is at
the Battery, another is in Hoboken, and a
third is in Harlem, in all of which places
the water is as nearly clear as it is posi-
BILE for water so near big city to be, but
the crowd of perspiring humanity is
quite as great. Indeed, if you were to
step down to Battery Park on any after
noon in July, August or September, you
might imagine yourself getting into one
of Henry Georges anti-poverty meetings
oil any other hot or multitudinous gath
erlng, so great is the concourse of per-
spring men, waiting their chances to Sc
cure towel or key to dressing room.
The little square of wafer in the bath in
closure, on such occasions, is so full of
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the better, as rule for the waters are nearly

the better. as rule, for the waters are nearly
all powerful.
After breakfast, there is always a dull
forenoon, during which the visitors lounge
about the hotels, but after dinner it is the
fashion to drive to the lake. and appar-
Nowhere, not even in Montreal or on Fifth
avenue, is there such a display of costly
equipages and rare horsehesh as is seen on
the road, the race track and to Saratoga lake
on every fine summer afternoon. The lus-
trous, heavy, rumbling landaus, led by sleek
horses harnessed with shining and clanking
chains roll along the level country road in
scores with their loads of well-dressed men
and Women, !!olling placidly back on the
yielding cushions. Phaetons and graceful
victorias are plentiful, and every now and
then one hears the rat-tat of racers hoofs
and sees some well-known horseman flying
behind the cleaning shoes with his body
bent forward above light skeleton wagon
and his muscles and nerves strained to main
tain the mastery of his steed.
There is nothing peculiar about the race
course, except that it is a very fashionable one
and has always been well and fairly managed
by noted sporting men, but the lake, further
on, is one of the crown jewels of Dame
Nature. 1t is lake of the kind peculiar to
this region, and of which Lake George is the
shining example and Lake Champlain is the
most considerable in size. Smaller ones of
the same peculiar attractiveness are to be
found by the hundred in the Adirondacks.
The clearness of the water in all of them is
one striking feature, but the beauty of the
shores is the most impressive charm they
possess. This Saratoga lake is long and
narrow, and is imbedded like
sheet of mirror glass in bowl
of the most beautiful greenery. The banks
rise steep and high above it, and everywhere
are clad with rich and dense vegetation.
There is no break or bemish anywhere in
the scene as you stand at the end and view
the whole crystal sheet and its emerald walls.
Here at the head of the lake is the famous
little tavern called Moons" the founder
of which made its fame and his own fortune
by cooking what are called Saratoga chips"
a thin, crisp, fried slicing of potatoes. This
tavern is at the end of the drive, and is sur
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world, and it is fair to say that they possess
IN themselves at least fifty per cent. of the at
fractions of the village All three cost so
much that the original investors in two of
them failed, and the only reason the third
did not pass through that doleful experience is
that it is heproperty ofthe heirs of the late A.
T. Stewart, the millionaire dry-goods mer-
chant, who are placed like the hero in the play
of "Richelieu," in whose bright lexicon there
was mo such word as fail" The smallest
of the three cost $500, 600, and the other two
cost 81, 100000 and 81 100000 respectively.
The two whose owners failed could not re-
turn the interest on their cost until the orig
inal cost was wiped out and new start was
had on the basis of the new and low-price
they fetched after bankruptcy.
These houses are built of brick, and each
one is five stories high and arranged in the
form of three sides of hollow square,
with park or garden in the middle. They
are so large that these interior gardens are as
big as several city blocks. In these inner
courts are great trees, ample lawns, flower
beds, fountains and music stands. A broad
piazza on the ground floor skirts each of
these gardens. and here the people con-
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An Ancient Lost Landmark Found.

Eight years before Columbus discovered
America an old Portuguese sailor named
Diego Cam went cruising down the coast OF
West Africa until he came to great river
on whose south bank he set up big white
stone and carved an inscription upon it cele
brating his discovery. 1t was the mighty
Congo, and for many years the famous
Pedra Padrao stood on the shore bearing
silent witness to the old sailors achieve
ment. Years later, when all eyes wert
turned to the new world, the Congo was
almost forgotten, and when it next attracted
notice the Pedra Padrao had disappeared
The spot where it stood has for centuries
been known as Padrao Point. Three or fOul
months ago Baron Won Schwerin, the Swed-
ish traveller, heard from some natives of
large fetch st ne hidden in the tall jungle
grass at some distance from the beach Ii
was only after long palavers with the chief
that he obtained permission to visit the rev
cred object. He found, to his delight, Tho
veritable Pedra Padrao, its well-known in
scription only partially effaced.
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THE DIAMOND suPpLs
ne Interesting Facts and Figures A~oss
the Costly Gems.

'S acbb Hnu Figures AAOOv
the Costly Gems.
The American trade limits It's purchases To
well-cut stones, and the retail diamond deal
ers abroad and at home agree that of all pur-
chasers Americans are most appreciative
and critical. A circumstance that facilitates
assessments of values in this line is that when
the eyes become familiarized to fine dia-
mond, any inferior grade as to form and
brllliancy can at once be detected
According to an English paper the diamond
supply question at Cape Colony is becoming
q source of some anxiety. 1t is being urged
that at present the prosperity of ali South
Africa is mainly dependent on the diamond
industry. Every week at Kimberly about
500, 900 is paid away in wages alone, and
this sum, it is said, is probably not far short
of the amount paid in the same way through
out all the rest of the colony.
Will diamonds last2 is the question which
excites attention even on the diamond fields
themselves. A Kimberly PAPER points TO
some facts which have serious aspect
There are signs that the value of the diamond
is declining. The following comparative ia
BILE of figures is published in illustration of
thia Abatement.
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A Poyerty-pinched Prince.

The Prince of Wales, by the way issuffer-
ing just now from an unusually acute attack
of his chronic trouble-lack ofmoney. His
income is, believe less than 81, 100000 a
year, and he has wife and three unmarried
daughters, Victoria, Louise and Maud, whose
busy besides which the jubilee has cost him
a lot and now he has had to buy an adj
mirars outfit. The prince has many things
to worry about. He is going to the country
very soon and will have good two-months'
rest.-New York Sun.
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The Calf Liked TURKEYS.

Recently a turkey-hen, the property of
Mrs. Joseph L. Garrett, near Cochranville.
West Fallowfield, brought out a brood of
nineteen little turkeys. The mother and her
babies were placed in proper Enclosure, and
the new arrivals gave every promise of max
ing the chief dish for as satisfactory Thanks
giving Day turkey dinner as could be desired.
But in an unlucky moment a young cali
strayed into the poultry yard and made sad
of the little turkeys, but she only thought
they had strayed away from the mother
She looked around, but nowhere were they
to be seen, and she came back to the inclos
ure just in time to see the calf eat the last OF
the two remaining turkeys.-Wes Chestei
(Pa.) Record.
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WAR RECOLLECTIONS.
WHAT A MARYLAND BOY KNEW
OF THE LATE CONFLICT.
The Thunder of the Great Battle of An
tietam-How Uncle Henry Escaped the
Draft-A Pleasant Hiding-pIace for the
Horses-President Lincoln's Death.
[Copvrf0hted. ISL

There has been much written in the
way of "reminiscences of the war. The
veterans appear to enjoy fighting their
battles over again, and no doubt much
valuable data have been brought to light.
1 have read these articles until warlike
ardor has seized me, and, like Jobs war
horse, l snuff the battle from afar.
was fully eleven years old when the
war began, so perhaps l should give
my experience. When the first shot
was fired at Fort Sumter, the echoes
of which rumbled for four terrible years
in the country, was living on farm
not hundred miles from Baltimore.
Great was the excitement among the
elders of the family, earnest the CONVEX
sations, anxious the discussions over the
papers, but l rather enjoyed it. I at
once, in order to keep the run of events,
constructed some intricate Notifications
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DELICATE FEMALES, who suffer
from the weaknesses of their sex, will
derive lasting relief from its use. 1t
improves the digestion, purifes the
blood, stimulates the appetite and
revives the spirits.
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INvALIDS AND CONVALEsCENTS
will find it admirably adapted for
sustaining life and restoring lost
strength. When the stomach is weak
and refuses other nourishment the
Extract will prove an excellent sub
stitute for food.
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LIEBIG
MALT
EXTRACT

RECOMMENDED BY PHYSICIANS
OF the highest eminence on both
sides of the Atlantic as an invaluable
Tonic and Restorative in cases OF
General Debility, Nervous Depres-
sion, Enfeebled Constitution and Fe-
male Weakness.
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NURSING MOTHERS, who suffer
from poverty of milk, will find it a
specific for their troubles. 1t slim
ulates the digestion, sharpens the
appetite, invigorates and builds up
the entire system, and excites a gen.
erous flow of milk.
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WEAK AND DELICATE PERSONS

WEAK AND DELICATE PERSONS
GENERALLY who require some arti-
fetal restorative-and especially those
who are inclined to Consumption
will find this preparation exactly
suited to their needs. 1t is a specific
for the Coughs and Nervous affec-
tons usually incident to a low state
Of the system.
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DOG-DAYS.
HOW NEW WORKERS SwELTER
DURING THE MIDSUMMER.
The City Heated on the Principle of a
Russian Furnace-The Exodus on a Hot
MISUNDERSTANDING Roofs and the Park
Benches-An Anti-poverty Meeting.
Copyrighted, 1871

Out in Manitoba the other day
wealthy pioneer showed me how his
house was heated with what he called
"Russian furnaces" hollow boxes
of brick which he stuffed full of wood
once every twenty-four hours and which
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years, and the most famous millionaires
and public men, of the East particularly,
are regularly announced each season as
having rented cottages in Saratoga. This
word cottage" is misnomer here
The only cottages there are in Saratoga
are such as the summer visitors would moi
live in-the little frame tenements of the
Villagers and the higher grades of help at the
hotels, race track and business places. The
so-called cottages that are referred to in the
news from the springs are merely suites OF
rooms in the two principal hotels. In order
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WEAK AND SICKLY CHILDREN
who suffer from lassitude and wear
mess, the result of disease, over
study, or nervous strain, will derive
substantial benefit from its use.
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of sand in the barnyard, and
daily bombardment of stones
gave me all the excitement of
war without any of its noxious
features. One bright Sunday
morning, when the soft spring
breeze was laden with sweet
odors and the church bell was
ringing out its melting call to
worship, a man came galloping
down the road with an excited
air that drew attention. On he
came, riding as though he was
one of Clan Alpine's messen-
gers bearing the bloody cross
of Rhoderick Dhu to the in
most Businesses of the High
lands. He was neighbor Staff.
"Five thousand men are march
ing down the road" yelled
he as he passed; "look out ~
Father fastened to the house,
while l literally followed our
neighbours command. l "looked
out" for the troop, hoping in
my heart they would come,
Neighbor Staff continued his
headlong pace until he reached
his home; then he quickly dis
mounted and, hurrying into
his house, thoughtfully dis
charged double-barreled gun
into the air and then secreted
l.:alc lS. : G
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Price fifty cents per bottle.
One dozen bottles sent to any part
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